Nick Denton Quotes
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My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.
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I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.
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While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.
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As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'
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That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
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The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.
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Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.
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Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.
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Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.
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